Thursday, May 16, 2013

Undergraduating, contextually

Poor Valentino, caught upin the unfairness of fash-ion, suffers his trousersnow to be worn too shortto celebrate the cut, tosay nothing of the stride.This would be unthinkableto Alistair, who wore onelength of trouser for sit-ting on the club veranda,and another for venturingoff to a seminar on Yeats.But the thing about doingwithout socks would be aconsolation, always assum-ing the foil of the her-ringbone, paving his way.

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Writing to a colleague in the 1930s, the physicist Wolfgang Pauli confessed, “I have done a terrible thing. I’ve postulated a particle that can not be detected.” Eventually, Pauli won the Nobel Prize for his Exclusion Principle, i.e., all material particles exhibit space-occupying behaviour - and could very well fall within the province of restaurants. I wonder if red mug, blue linen will be that terrible thing, a postulate without a particle - that a gentleman is only that creature whose nourishment occupies no space. But whether that is true, is less urgent to know than where it comes from.

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